If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.
BARRY COMMONERThe first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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Everything is connected to everything else.
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Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.
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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.
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It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.—->I dont believe in environmentalism as the solution to anything. What I believe is that environmentalism illuminates the things that need to be done to solve all of the problems together.
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Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.
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The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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The gap between brute power and human need continues to grow, as the power fattens on the same faulty technology that intensifies the need.
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The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.
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The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts – even widely known ones – that were outside their limited field of vision.
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The environmental crisis is a sign that the ecosphere is now so heavily strained that its continued stability is threatened. It is a warning that we must discover the source of this suicidal drive and master it before it destroys the environment-and ourselves.
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Science is triumphant with far-ranging success, but its triumph is somehow clouded by growing difficulties in providing for the simple necessities of human life on earth.
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Air pollution is not merely a nuisance and a threat to health. It is a reminder that our most celebrated technological achievements-the automobile, the jet plane, the power plant, industry in general, and indeed the modern city itself-are, in the environment, failures.
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In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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No action is without its side effects.
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In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it.
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The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.
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Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.
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After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it – removing that advantage for all firms.
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We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.
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When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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